NPP to hold a rally for Akufo-Addo to apologise to Ghanaians – Asabee

Former Member of Parliament for Mfantsiman West Constituency and leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Stephen Asamoah Boateng, has stated that former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to apologise to Ghanaians.

The former lawmaker indicated that former President Akufo-Addo will apologise to Ghanaians at a planned rally of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to be held very soon.

According to him, the 81-year-old is remorseful for how he ran down the country and has since taken responsibility for it.

He is keen to apologise to Ghanaians publicly.

This resolution was reached between Akufo-Addo and ex-president John Agyekum Kufour.

“After the meeting between ex-President Kufour and Akufo-Addo, there was a decision for the party to plan and organise an atonement rally in Ghana to say sorry to Ghanaians,” he is quoted as saying in an interview on Nhyira FM.

This, he said, followed the heavy defeat the party suffered in the 2024 elections.

“I met Nana Addo in a meeting, and he was worried and humbled by the 2024 defeat. He told me that we must all accept the responsibility for the party’s defeat in the election, but he takes the highest blame.”

However, the NPP has expanded its electoral college to 280,000 at its July 2025 delegates conference in Accra. The delegates at the party’s highest decision-making conference at the University of Ghana voted to expand the electoral college by 40 per cent. The vote has effectively expanded the party’s electoral college, adding more than 60,000 polling station executives to the existing 220,000, enlarging the size of the voters to more than 280,000.

This means all former Members of Parliament (MPs), former parliamentary candidates, former Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), card-holding former ministers and deputy ministers, as well as former regional, constituency and branch executives will participate in the election of the flag bearer in January 2026.

However, delegates at the polling station, constituency and regional levels, who are now part of the enlarged electoral college, will not be eligible to vote in the January 2026 election when the party goes to elect a flag bearer for the 2028 general election. This is because the election of those officers will be done after March 2026, following the conclusion of the current tenure of the polling station, constituency, and regional level executive.

For instance, at the constituency and regional levels, the party currently has one officer in charge of elections or research whose tenure will expire in March 2026. This position has now been decoupled in the vote that expanded the electoral college, meaning that after March 2026, there will be two separate officers — one for elections and another for research—enhancing the electoral college structure.